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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 05:48 PM
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Hugo Chavez accuses U.S. of using weapon to cause Haiti quake
 
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era veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 05:54 PM
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1. Got to get me some earthquake raygun
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 06:13 PM
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2. It was tragic, but necessary, just like that time we used our meteorite magnet to kill the dinosaurs
To this day, humanity is safe from dinosaurs, yet Hugo Chavez never thanks us for rescuing him from this terrible menace.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 06:15 PM
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3. Uh, Hugo…
These might help.

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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:47 PM
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21. Uh, it's a fake and you're falling for it?
Did you watch the video?
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 09:48 PM
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35. I didn't watch it.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 09:51 PM
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36. It's a Russian newscast in English voicing over old file footage.
Hugo only wishes he looked that young today.

:shrug:

There's zip evidence he said this anywhere.
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MinM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 02:19 PM
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51. USGS claims Venezuela holds Earth’s largest oil reserves
Edited on Sat Jan-23-10 03:16 PM by MinM
http://rawstory.com/2010/01/usgs-claims-venezuela-holds-earths-largest-oil-reserves/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4239252

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»There's zip evidence he said this anywhere.

That's exactly right, EFerrari. Plus 1 for your fine efforts in this thread.
Minus 1 to the op.

This latest bit of anti-Hugo propaganda probably has nothing to do with the latest
USGS findings. :sarcasm:

Or -- much like Yemen/Somalia in the Middle East -- this can't be about
Venezuela's geopolitically strategic location? Can it? :shrug:
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MinM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 02:31 PM
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52. Caribbean Geopolitics

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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 09:16 PM
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31. It's a fake. It is not true. It never is. With Chavez. Lies. All lies.
This message brought you by Baghdad Bob. :)

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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 09:21 PM
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33. Why don't you translate the video for us?
Thanks!
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bitchkitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 06:31 AM
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46. Because then he'd have to admit
that he deliberately presented lies as truth to this community.

Actually, it makes me happy when people show their true agenda! Thanks, jefferson_dem!
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Irish_shark Donating Member (133 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 03:17 PM
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55. You showed the video a lady repeating claims by a right-wing newspaper
Edited on Sat Jan-23-10 03:18 PM by Irish_shark
Here's the info on that ABC newspaper which started it all:

"ABC is known for generally supporting conservative political views and defending the Spanish monarchy, and was seized in 1936 by the Popular Front (Frente Popular) when the Spanish Civil War started" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(newspaper)

When I first saw your post, I saw the face of Chavez. That made me think the video would show a clip of Chavez making the alleged statement.
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 06:17 PM
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4. Hugo Chavez is crazy...
Read a Science Fiction novel where Someone put a Particle Beam Cannon in orbit and could cause earthquakes with it.

Chavez doesn't know the difference between fiction and reality.
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12string Donating Member (443 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 06:45 PM
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9. science fiction and reality
Go watch HAARP, Holes in Heaven,a six part series on U-Tube,and then talk about science fiction and reality.If there is anything I am sure of is that the U.S.government can not be trusted.Just assuming Chavez is crazy doesn't necessarily make it so.It amazes me sometimes how quick some here are to dismiss anyone who disparages the U.S.to label them as crazy when half of the posts here show that the government and the media do nothing but lie or withold information from us.
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SkyDaddy7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 06:52 PM
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10. WHATEVER!
Chavez is crazy! This is not the only crazy thing Chavez has done or said. I won't even comment on the HAARP Conspiracy.
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SandWalker1984 Donating Member (533 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:30 PM
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17. Check out the HAARP facility in Alaska.
For something that supposedly doesn't exist, it's a pretty big compound.

Actually, our government DOES have the technology to create earthquakes.

I've been reading the chatter elsewhere about the Haiti earthquake and some scientists are questioning why the island's large quake did not create some sort of tsunami.

By the way, there are PATENTS covering HAARP:

The main idea behind HAARP is the ability to direct electrons along the naturally occurring magnetic field lines of the Earth and accelerate them to near the speed of light to form a protective shell of highly excited particles that not only block communications worldwide, but destroy missiles and their trajectory as they descend from space. The effects can be localized by punching a hole through the ionosphere to superheat an area 30 kilometers in diameter into a plasma shield. Any missile or aircraft would be destroyed that tried to fly through the plasma, which is the fourth state of matter. A hole in the ionosphere could kill by allowing the solar radiation to strike the surface of the Earth unhindered. Weather modification can also be used as an instrument of warfare by manipulating the electrojet and the jet streams which dictate climate.

The project is a creation of the U.S. Air Force and Naval Research. Publicly it is an ionospheric research instrument, but it can be used to control weather and do electromagnetic sweeps that be used for mind control of large populations.

HAARP, located 30 miles from Fairbanks Alaska,
is the real focus of anti-missile defense that SDI, the Strategic Defense Initiative, purported to be, and much more. The public patent was titled A Method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere. Dr. Bernard Eastlund, a physicist who holds a patent for the fusion torch also holds about a dozen other related patents that were eventually purchased by E-Systems and Raytheon.

Patent 4686605 claims the following uses.
“cause total disruption of all forms of communications over a very large portion of the Earth”
“missile or aircraft destruction, deflection, or confusion”
“weather modification by altering solar absorption”
“also altering composition of the atmosphere”

This patent was classified by the Navy under national security order in 1987, but other patents exists for purposes of:

Power beaming system (US Patent 5068669 )
Artificial ionospheric mirror composed of a plasma layer (US Patent 5041834)
Creation of artificial ionization clouds above the earth (US Patent 4999637)
Defense system for discriminating between objects in space (US Patent 4817495)
Nuclear-sized explosions without radiation (US Patent 4873928)



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SandWalker1984 Donating Member (533 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:57 PM
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25. You also might want to read about the works of a scientist named Tesla
When Tesla died, the government took all of his research papers and classified them, and they remain classified to this day.

Here's some interesting info on Tesla and man-made earthquakes for those of you who realize our government is doing some VERY in depth research into weather control, mind control, bio terror, etc in the name of gaining newer and better weapons.


Earthquakes: Natural or Man-Made?
by Jason Jeffrey

Suppressed Research: Tesla Technologies

Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Nikola Tesla is one of the 20th century’s greatest scientists. A prodigious inventor of electronic devices and pioneer of free energy, Tesla never gained the recognition he deserved because his scientific breakthroughs were deemed too ‘sensitive’ by the corporate and government powers of the day.

In a book entitled Tesla – The Lost Inventions, a section is headed “Man-Made Earthquake”. It discloses Tesla’s fascination with the power of resonance and how he experimented with it not only electrically but on the mechanical plane as well. In his Manhattan lab, Tesla built mechanical vibrators and tested their powers. One experiment got out of hand.

Tesla attached a powerful little vibrator driven by compressed air to a steel pillar. Leaving it there, he went about his business. Meanwhile, down the street, a violent quaking built up, shaking down plaster, bursting plumbing, cracking windows, and breaking heavy machinery off its anchorages.

Tesla’s vibrator had found the resonant frequency of a deep sandy layer of subsoil beneath his building, setting off a small earthquake. Soon Tesla’s own building began to quake. It is reported that just as the police broke into his lab, Tesla was seen smashing the device with a sledge hammer, the only way he could promptly stop it.

In a similar experiment, on an evening walk through the city, Tesla attached a battery powered vibrator, described as being the size of an alarm clock, to the steel framework of a building under construction. He adjusted it to a suitable frequency and set the structure into resonant vibration.

The structure shook, and so did the earth under his feet. Tesla later boasted he could shake down the Empire State Building with such a device. If this claim was not extravagant enough, he went on to say a large-scale resonant vibration was capable of splitting the Earth in half.

An article from the July 11, 1935 issue of the New York American entitled ‘Tesla’s Controlled Earthquakes’, stated Tesla’s “experiments in transmitting mechanical vibrations through the Earth – called by him ‘the art of telegeodynamics’ – were roughly described by the scientists as a sort of controlled earthquake.”

The article quotes Tesla as saying:

The rhythmical vibrations pass through the Earth with almost no loss of energy. It becomes possible to convey mechanical effects to the greatest terrestrial distances and produce all kinds of unique effects. The invention could be used with destructive effect in war…

The January 1978 edition of Specula magazine ran an article describing an incredibly profound phenomenon that could be produced within the Earth by what is called the ‘Tesla Effect.’


According to the article, electromagnetic signals of certain frequencies can be transmitted through the Earth to form standing waves in the Earth itself. In certain cases, coherence to this standing wave can be induced wherein a fraction of the vast, surging electromagnetic current of the Earth itself feeds into and augments the induced standing wave.

In other words, “much more energy is now present in the standing wave than the ...amount being fed in from the Earth’s surface.” By interferometer techniques, giant standing waves can be combined to produce a focused beam of very great energy. This can then be used to produce earthquakes induced at distant aiming points.

Tesla expressed grave concerns about the effects of this technology because it is exactly the type of thing that could easily get out of control once it begins vibrating within the Earth – and it could actually cause the Earth to vibrate to pieces.

Another leading Tesla researcher and nuclear engineer, Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden, lecturing at a Symposium of the US Psychotronics Association (USPA) in 1981, stated:

Tesla found that he could set up standing waves… in the Earth (the molten core), or, just set it up through the rocks – the telluric activity in the rocks would furnish activity into these waves and one would get more potential energy in those waves than he put in. He called the concept the Tesla Magnifying Transmitter (TMT).

Bearden goes on to explain how TMTs worked:

They will go through anything. What you do is that you set up a standing wave through the Earth and the molten core of the Earth begins to feed that wave (we are talking Tesla now). When you have that standing wave, you have set up a triode. What you’ve done is that the molten core of the Earth is feeding the energy and it’s like your signal – that you are putting in – is gating the grid of a triode… Then what you do is that you change the frequency. If you change the frequency one way (start to dephase it), you dump the energy up in the atmosphere beyond the point on the other side of the Earth that you focused upon. You start ionising the air, you can change the weather flow patterns (jet streams etc) – you can change all that – if you dump it gradually, real gradually – you influence the heck out of the weather. It’s a great weather machine. If you dump it sharply, you don’t get little ionisation like that. You will get flashes and fireballs (plasma) that will come down on the surfaces of the Earth… you can cause enormous weather changes over entire regions by playing that thing back and forth.

HAARP: The Pentagon’s Ultimate Weapon

In an Arctic compound 450 kilometres east of Anchorage, Alaska, the Pentagon has erected a powerful transmitter designed to beam more than a gigawatt of energy into the upper reaches of the atmosphere. Known as Project HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program), the experiment involves the world’s largest “ionospheric heater,” a device designed to zap the skies hundreds of kilometres above the Earth with high-frequency radio waves.

Why irradiate the charged particles of the ionosphere (which when energised by natural processes make up the lovely and famous phenomenon known as the Northern Lights)? According to the US Navy and Air Force, co-sponsors of the project, “to observe the complex natural variations of Alaska’s ionosphere.” As well, admit the Pentagon, to develop new forms of communications and surveillance technologies to enable the military to send signals to nuclear submarines and to peer deep underground.

Ever since the existence of HAARP became public, a number of independent researchers have warned the operation has a secret agenda including weather modification, mind control, hi-tech military experiments, and the triggering of earthquakes.

HAARP transmissions may also be used for the detection and monitoring of electromagnetic or “plasma” phenomena, precursors of seismic activity and tectonic movement. Researchers believe HAARP transmissions are actually being used to activate or trigger exactly the same electromagnetic conditions that can cause tectonic movement.

Jerry Smith in his book HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy, warns many atmospheric scientists working on the secretive military project might be unaware of HAARP’s grave potential to wreak havoc on the Earth. He writes:

If HAARP is a TMT , and these researchers correctly understand Tesla’s work, we could be in a lot of trouble. It is quite possible that the scientists working on HAARP do not know what they are playing with… Beyond that their ignorance might be compounded if HAARP is indeed a secretive black-ops military project. The military has devised a way of keeping secrets called ‘compartmentalisation’ where each unit knows only what it needs to know… Only the control group knows what’s going on… If there is a control group familiar with TMTs directing the actions of scientists unschooled in Tesla technology, those lower level operatives could be directed to wreak havoc with created weather or manufactured earthquakes….

The key technology behind HAARP is the brainchild of scientist Bernard Eastlund. Judging from his APTI patent, Tesla was a major inspiration for Eastlund’s ionospheric heater. A New York Times story, dated December 8, 1915, describes one of Tesla’s ideas which are remarkably similar to Eastlund’s.3


http://newdawnmagazine.com.au/Articles/Earthquakes_Natural_or_Man_Made.html


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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 02:43 AM
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44. Cart before the horse.
First off, that supposed 'earthquake' Tesla supposedly triggered, wouldn't actually be an earthquake. If he triggered a fault, smashing the machine wouldn't stop the earthquake. So if it happened, it was just good old mechanical sympathetic resonance.

And "HAARP transmissions may also be used for the detection and monitoring of electromagnetic or “plasma” phenomena, precursors of seismic activity and tectonic movement. Researchers believe HAARP transmissions are actually being used to activate or trigger exactly the same electromagnetic conditions that can cause tectonic movement."

This is crap. The magenetic phenomena associated with earthquake precursors do not cause earthquakes, they are a side effect or result of strain, uplift and other geological pressures.

There are absolutely ways for human activity to trigger a fault, and produce not only an earthquake, but swarms of earthquakes. None of those ways apply to what happened in Haiti.
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SkyDaddy7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 12:13 PM
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59. I am fully aware of who Tesla was...
However, making a building shake, if that even happened, is not even worth talking about whaen it comes to a 7.1 Earthquake!!!!


On top of that folks here want to say our Government gave the order, or perhaps Obama flipped the switch himself, and caused the earthquake on Haiti via HAARP in Alaska! WHATEVER!

I know geologist cause vibrations via explosions or special vehicles that pound the ground in order to understand the make-up of what might be undergraound...However, NOTHING we do in the name of science or all out war matches the earthquake in Hatia! NOTHING! LOL!
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 02:33 AM
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43. You must be joking.
It not only exists, it's not and never has been even classified, and as a civilian, you can visit and tour it.

The military does indeed have an interest in it, because some of the technology tested there can improve military hardware around communications, look-down radar from sattelites, etc. But HAARP is not a weapon. It's not even powerful enough to generate aurora borealis of it's own.
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webDude Donating Member (830 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 01:54 AM
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41. ? Seismologists do this every day, just a question of degree...
...and placement,....you close-minded person, you. BTW, do you get paid by the post or is it by the hour?
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SkyDaddy7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 12:04 PM
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58. Close Minded, person?????
Why? Because I won't jump on the ludacris idea that our government created the earthquake in Haiti via the HAARP complex in Alaska?

I think you may be guilty of opening your mind up so much your brain fell out!!!

Good Luck!


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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 09:02 PM
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28. Sorry, my tin foil hat was recalled by Toyota, and I haven't received a replacement yet.
Chavez is a fruitcake tyrant who stirs up the terror of the evil United States to keep his people terrorized. He has a lot in common with Bush and a number of other world leaders on both the right and the left.

Making the accusation that the U.S. caused an earthquake in Haiti with an earthquake gun is fantasy and political terrorism.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:57 PM
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27. This video has already been debunked multiple times here at DU
so Chavez doesn't seem to be the one that has a fiction/reality problem.

lol
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virgogal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 06:19 PM
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5. He's a lunatic.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:53 PM
Response to Reply #5
24. No, he's not a lunatic. You are if you believe this sleeze.
Did you watch the video?
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V_Byl Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 06:20 PM
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6. It was nice of Chavez...
To pony up no financial aid to the victims in Haiti, but at least now we know what caused the earthquake.
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Loki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 06:22 PM
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7. This is Walgreens Mr. Chavez
Your prescriptions are ready for you to pick up.
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 06:30 PM
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8. So where are all the apologists from the other thread saying this is a hoax by RT
Because as we all know, Russia Today is just like the Onion.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:45 PM
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19. I'm right fucking here.
This is the same video as yesterday.

Can you translate Spanish? What is he saying in the stock footage in the background? Russia Today is quoting an OPINION piece in a right-wing Spanish newspaper, that was picked up by IRANIAN propaganda. There was some nonsense posted to the official Venezualan television site that quoted an apparently fake Russian report blaming the U.S., but that is not "Hugo Chavez said..." Did he approve its posting? Did he say anything in support of it?

I am not a fan of Hugo Chavez, but I am a fan of the TRUTH. If he said it, prove it. I asked for proof in two different threads all day yesterday, as Muriel_Volestrangler tracked down the source of this "incident," that Chavez ACTUALLY said the U.S. set off the earthquake. No one came up with anything. What were his exact words? Where was he when he said them? Who did he say them to? Who with any legitimacy will verify it? I can easily imagine him saying it, maybe he did, but that is not the same thing as his actually saying it.

Until someone proves he said it, this is just more right-wing slander and propaganda and misinformation attack. I will be more than willing to admit that he said it if someone verifies he said it, but until then, this is the stuff of that other website.
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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 09:19 PM
Response to Reply #19
32. Ruh roh...
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 09:24 PM
Response to Reply #32
34. LOL. Except that's bullshit and the source has been posted here
more than once.

LOL

Venezuelan scientists had nothing to do with this. The source is a report by the Russian Navy.

But go right ahead spamming DU with this bullshit. It makes DU what it is today.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 10:24 PM
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38. Where does it say Chavez said the U.S. caused the earthquake?
Edited on Fri Jan-22-10 10:27 PM by Hissyspit
A professor says "we have our suspicions." SOMEONE posted a press release to the TV site. How is that "Chavez accuses U.S. of causing earthquake?"
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bitchkitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 06:37 AM
Response to Reply #32
47. Ruh roh...
More misrepresentation. You post your link from dailykos as evidence, knowing that the average reader will not follow the link and find out that it's another story entirely. No evidence at all - just another lie from you.

This is all you've got? What are we, doing the limbo here? How loooooooow can you go? LOL
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 03:39 AM
Response to Reply #19
45. I'm tempted to apologize.
I do not speak Spanish, nor does the video appear to even be suggested as an actual quote...

On the other hand, RT has earned a lot of journalistic respect from me, on many, many issues it has covered, much like Al Jazeera, where they honestly reported news, while the US Mainstream media happily spread disinformation and spin..

I'm having a hard time accepting the idea that RT would spread disinformation or lies about frankly, the leader of one of Russia's strategic partners for both economic and military issues.


I withdraw my accusation in the previous post, and eagerly await clarification on what the hell happened here.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 12:44 PM
Response to Reply #45
49. I will apologize.
Edited on Sat Jan-23-10 12:46 PM by Hissyspit
For using the word 'fucking.' I was a bit riled up when I saw yet another of these posts implying that Chavez directly spoke words to the effect that the U.S. used a weapon to cause the attack. Also, as everyone hear is aware, it's been a bad week.

I, too, have been very impressed by Russia Today. I think that what they would say in their defense is that the "press release" citing the bogus Russian Navy report was on a state TV site, and that journalism practice allows for any opinion that appears in any government's communication machinery to be attributed to the head of that government. In this case, I think they were really pushing this. THE BEST I CAN ASCERTAIN, we have no idea who put the thing up on the website. We have no idea who ordered it taken down. It could have been Chavez. We have no idea of how much, if any, involvement Chavez had in this. The RT report strongly implied that the video was of him saying the words, and many here on DU acted as if it was fact. I don't think they were deliberately attacking Chavez. I think they got lazy, or confused. It happens. It wouldn't have hurt for them to make a phone call to the Venezuala government for confirmation.

Chavez may have been fine with it. He may have had a hand in it, but if he believes this, why is there no other reported instance of him speaking about it? There is indication that a college professor associated with the government "has suspicions" that the U.S. caused the earthquake. That is not Chavez.

Thank you for your reasoned response. And again I apologize if it appeared I was attacking you personally.

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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 02:11 PM
Response to Reply #45
50. What is interesting is that RT is presenting this as originated by Chavez
when it was originated by the Russian Navy.

Maybe there's a little bit of politicking going on here? But thanks for your recommendation. I'm always looking for information on media outlets. :)
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 09:04 PM
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29. I'm here. Do you speak Spanish?
The video hasn't become more real by being posted to this forum.

Geeze. DU used to be better than this.
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stevenleser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 07:04 PM
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11. Hugo, Porque no te callas?
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:49 PM
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22. Do you have some video proving Chavez actually said that the U.S. caused the Haitian earthquake?
If you do, I would love to see it.
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stevenleser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 06:41 PM
Response to Reply #22
62. I have to admit, i took the OP at face value. That being said
even if the OP is wrong, I still wish he would shut up. He has said enough stupidity lately, including criticizing the US response to Haiti by accusing Obama of using the crisis as an opportunity to occupy Haiti.

I'll say it again. Presidente Hugo Chavez, porque no te callas. In fact, callate que me desesperass!!!
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silenttigersong Donating Member (339 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 07:22 PM
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12. Weaponry
Hugo brings up an interesting conversation,What exactly do we know about developmental weapons?Crazy like a fox?
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Rozlee Donating Member (821 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 07:33 PM
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13. Hugo and Pat Robertson need to be put in a padded room together.
Hugo had his moments, like when he dissed Bush at the U.N., but he's getting as crazy as some of our conservative nutso's.
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bitchkitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 07:40 PM
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14. Lies. He didn't say it.
There's a Russian article on a Venezuelan government site that says it, but no footage and no quotes of Hugo Chavez saying it. Fascist propaganda at its best.

It's hysterical how many of you line up and lap up that tasty bullshit. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 07:46 PM
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15. Ah, there it is! The old "lost in translation" desperate refuge...
I just knew you guys would be showing up. :spray:
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bitchkitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:23 PM
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16. Lost in what translation?
There is no freaking translation. He never said it. It's a lie, which you know and you're spreading deliberately. Nice.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:37 PM
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18. Where did he say it? When did he say it? Who was he with when he said it?
Where is the proof?

There is NOTHING in that video that confirms this story. There is NO evidence that Chavez has said it or thinks it. He may have. But PROVE it.

This is the same video as yesterday. There is nothing new here. The source is a RIGHT-WING Spanish newspaper OPINION piece mentioning that a fake Russian Report was posted to a Venezuelan government website.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:46 PM
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20. You're hilarious. All of the Spaniish speakers on this board
Edited on Fri Jan-22-10 08:46 PM by EFerrari
agree he said no such thing in this video which is clearly old footage.


You better hope there's no footage of you out there that someone can voice over.

:)
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:51 PM
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23. How embarrassing. You put up a Russian video
Edited on Fri Jan-22-10 08:52 PM by EFerrari
that cites a right wing Spanish paper that cites a Russian Navy report and has nothing to do with Chavez but the file footage?

I take it you're not a Spanish speaker and you can't understand a word of the video?

Embarrassing.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 08:57 PM
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26. And DUer Muriel_Volestrangler, who actually tried to confirm the report, said the Russian report
Edited on Fri Jan-22-10 08:58 PM by Hissyspit
was bogus.

Since the report the best I can tell was mentioned on a state Venezualan website, it could POSSIBLY have been approved by Chavez. He may have actually said that he believes this. But I have seen NO proof.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 09:06 PM
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30. I also tracked it back about the same time muriel did and on the same thread.
Edited on Fri Jan-22-10 09:30 PM by EFerrari
It's bullshit.

If there was audio or video of Chavez saying this, it would be all over the world.

It isn't. It's a fake.
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 10:03 PM
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37. The term, "Dumber then dogshit" is coming up but it isn't Hugo.
This has been debunked, you look like an idiot.
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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 10:54 PM
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39. Truth about Chavez = Debunked by definition
Got it. :crazy:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 11:55 PM
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40. Did you watch the video you posted?
:crazy:
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 12:09 PM
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48. No. We ADMITTED it COULD be true, went and did RESEARCH to see if it was, concluded it WASN'T.
THIS is what happened.

Hey, I'm still open to the existence of video or audio proving he did say that. You have that?

Yup, didn't think so.

Try to act like a thinking person next time. You seem to be having great difficulty accepting the fact that some statement that titillates your opinions isn't true.

Remember the picture of Bush reading a book upside down? I wanted to believe it was true, but once it was proved it was photoshopped, I ACCEPTED the truth.

Do likewise. It's necessary for personal growth.
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 02:08 AM
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42. Even if the video is bogus... HAARP IS REAL
Jesse Ventura's show regarding HAARP

Part ONE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1tD12Byuls
Part TWO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKOc32PEIc4
Part THREE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eoUQ3ylLsk
Part FOUR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXSFbVRuIk4

Oh btw, part three has Dr. Nick Begich in it !!!
Son of U.S. Congressman, brother of U.S. Senator Mark Begich
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sattahipdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 03:02 PM
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53. HAARP and Earthquakes
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Irish_shark Donating Member (133 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 03:14 PM
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54. Nobody can find a video or audio with Chavez making the alleged statement
What's up with that?
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DutchLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 08:34 PM
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56. I don't care what he says. President Chavez has been helping Haïti for a long time...
Even a long time before the earthquake struck. Even before the terrible hurricanes of last year struck. He has been a fried of the people of Haïti when the West was ignoring their pleas.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 12:25 AM
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57. There's no proof Hugo really said it
Too bad I was to late to Unrecommend.
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sattahipdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 02:55 PM
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60. conspiracy theories
In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama's appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated "cognitive infiltration" of groups that advocate "conspiracy theories"

Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures," in which he argued that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine" those groups

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/obama-staffer-infiltration-911-groups/
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sattahipdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 04:18 PM
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61. HAARP Holes in Heaven Part 1/6
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